The military rank is Political Officer. Branch of troops is Military-Political category. Anatoly Leonidovich Krasnov (1906-1941) was Political Commissar, TASS war correspondent of the Western front. He worked as a journalist for the TASS News Agency (The USSR Telegraph News Agency), and in the first days of the war he volunteered for the active army as a military correspondent. On June 26, 1941, he left for the front line of the Western front. Official data: Missing in actions during the fighting near Kiev, the last message was received from him on September 19, 1941 from the encircled Kiev. This is how one of his fellow journalists wrote about it: "Group of our comrades was issued for departure to the active army. They appeared in the reporter's office in a brand-new commander's uniform. They were looked at with admiration and envy. It never occurred to me then that we would never see any of them again. A. Krasnov, I. Fungi (Kozlak), N. Shahin, then I. Denisov and others left one after the other in the army and Navy. Our reporter's room was getting emptier and emptier... Sometimes the lines transmitted by TASS military commanders to Moscow from the scene of bloody battles, from the occupied areas, were stingy and concise. But these were priceless lines of historical truth about the selfless heroism of people defending their native land, their people, and their home. Sometimes these lines cost the life of their author. The first military loss of the TASS team was Anatoly Leonidovich Krasnov, the "king" of TASS reporters, well-known in the circles of art and literature workers, left for the front on June 26 and the last news about him came from Kiev on September 19, forty-first..” According to the verbal testimony of another miltary correspondent Malibashev A.M. it became later known that Krasnov A. L. had died during the battle of Kiev as a result of air raid.